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I've crawled out of the depths of the inky void after half a dozen years to share a dumb meme because Hazbin Hotel has corrupted me.

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“She could elevate anything you wrote — she dives in and cares deeply. You cannot have a superficial conversation with Sandra.”

Sandra Oh for Elle Canada | June 2020

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i keep adding “squirtle” to the phrase “i’m dying” whenever i say it

“i’m dying, squirtle”

i don’t know why????????? is it a reference i’ve forgotten or am i just fu ckin tatched in the head who knows

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They really wanted to put him specifically on blast

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doctor doctor

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#his iron man party mask #he’s shooting paper #christ

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How to Self Rescue in the Event you Fall Through Frozen Ice

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A while ago I got a message requesting something related to this tweet from ssspock (who runs the official_bucky account on Twitter)! It took me forever, but this is what I came up with! This was good fun to draw, and as you can see Bucky’s twitter account is a true blessing so you should follow it (if you aren’t already!)

P.S. don’t forget to enter my art giveaway! It ends in a week!

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peter capaldi: *plays the doctor using his natural scottish accent*

david tennant:

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silly comic based on a scene in endgame ((mainly based on this lovely post tho lmao))

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meirl

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someone: oh so you identify as—

me:

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It’s been an increasing source of frustration for many library users: waiting weeks, sometimes months to get to the top of the waiting list for a popular eBook or e-Audiobook.

Why does it take so long? After all, it’s not a physical object, it’s a digital file that lives in the “cloud”, why can’t multiple people access it simultaneously instead of only one at a time? Barring that, why doesn’t the library just buy more copies so that the waiting list is shorter? Getting people access to books and information is what libraries are all about, but the struggle for acquiring lendable e-content is very real, and it’s getting harder all the time. Why? What’s the big hairy deal? For that answer, you have to look to the “Big 5” Publishers, who are responsible for close to 80% of trade book sales. 

Publishers have been extremely wary about allowing library users virtual access to their books. After all, digital copies of books never wear out or have to be replaced, and are more vulnerable to unauthorized copying (“pirating”). Publshers were afraid if they allowed libraries access to their books digitally, they would be losing money. Individual publishers came up with their own sets of rules for libraries to access their e-content, and they have been tweaked many times since 2006.

In addition, the prices libraries must pay for ebooks and e-audiobooks is very high. Libraries must pay up to 4X the retail price for digital versions of books (which only one user can have access to at a time).  Meeting the library patron’s needs for downloadable content is a very expensive enterprise, indeed! Take a look at this comparison of the prices for various versions of the same book:

It becomes easy to see that acquiring ebooks for public use is a very expensive endeavor…

Read more on The Cheshire Library Blog.